Falling in Love to Escape the Original Book Plot [BL]
Chapter 266: Rootless Colourful Water Lily

Chapter 266: Rootless Colourful Water Lily

Without waiting for the inevitable question, Shen Xu continued.

"What are the rarest treasures in the cultivation world?" He asked.

"Rarest..." Li Wenqiang muttered but soon shrugged in helplessness.

Similarly, Yang Shi and Feng Xue frowned but couldn’t figure it out.

"Treasures that can affect the spiritual root." Zhen Yuan suddenly answered and Shen Xu smiled in appreciation.

"Ayuan is right. The rarest treasures are those that can affect the spiritual root." He said.

"Can the rootless colourful water lily affect the spiritual root?" Li Wenqiang asked and the double nodded.

"Refining the rootless colourful water lily can remove excess spiritual roots, turning an ordinary cultivator into a talented single-root cultivator."

"Can’t multi-root cultivators achieve this with the spirit cleansing grass or pill?" Li Wenqiang asked in a confused voice.

Although spirit cleansing grass was rare, it wasn’t extinct and could often be found in dangerous areas and secret realms.

Considering that, Li Wenqiang felt the rootless colourful water lily wasn’t as precious as Shen Xu made it out to be.

"Spirit cleansing grass can turn a multi-root cultivator into an acquired single-root talent. However, the acquired is always inferior to the innate."

"Is it different for the rootless colourful water lily?" Li Wenqiang asked and Shen Xu nodded.

"After refining the rootless colourful water lily, the acquired spiritual root is indistinguishable from the innate. But this is not the only effect."

"Are there others?" Yang Shi asked.

"The rootless colourful water lily can purify and enlarge spiritual roots, improving talent and increasing cultivation speed. Most importantly, refining each petal engraves a rune on the spiritual root."

Hearing this, Yang Shi and Li Wenqiang stared at Shen Xu in curiosity.

"The rune is related to the element of the spiritual root. After comprehending the rune, the cultivator will be able to generate a higher quality and more powerful form of qi."

"What does that mean?" Li Wenqiang asked.

"Mmmmh..." Shen Xu narrowed his eyes, trying to collect his thoughts.

However, he couldn’t think of a good way to describe the situation, so he turned to Zhen Yuan.

"Assume you require ten points of qi to activate a certain attack. After comprehending one rune, you will be able to unleash the same or a more powerful attack with one point of qi."

"Also, you will acquire an element-related power. Although this elemental power is limited, it’s extremely powerful and allows cultivators to challenge above their level."

"So powerful?" Li Wenqiang asked in an incredulous voice.

"It’s indeed powerful but don’t underestimate the difficulty of comprehending the runes." Shen Xu said and quickly continued.

"The runes contain a small trace of the way of heaven. If you comprehend this trace, ascension will become a matter of course."

"Master, I want to retreat." Feng Xue stated and the others immediately agreed.

"We practised in the lightning lake for one hundred years so our cultivation is stable. It’s okay to retreat at this time." Shen Xu said.

Soon after, he waved his hand and five boxes appeared in front of everyone.

"Each box has three void refining pills, one rootless colourful water lily petal, thirty enlightening pills, five billion spirit stones, and a variety of other pills and treasures. See if there is anything else you need." The double said.

"I have everything I need." Yang Shi stated.

In addition to what Shen Xu gave him, he had the blood essence crystal.

With these resources, advancing to level six was an inevitability, rather than a possibility.

After eating and drinking for three days, Yang Shi and Feng Xue retreated in their caves, Li Wenqiang returned to the Nine Heavens Tower, and Shen Xu and Zhen Yuan went to their bamboo hut.

"Ayuan..." Shen Xu called and pulled his husband onto the bed.

Soon after, lascivious voices echoed in the room and the moon hid behind the dark clouds.

One month later, the two went into their training rooms and began their seclusion.

After adjusting his state of mind, Zhen Yuan didn’t immediately refine the rootless colourful water lily petals.

Instead, he began comprehending the memorised laws he had accumulated in the past one hundred or so years.

Two hundred space years passed in this way.

After two hundred space years, Zhen Yuan began comprehending a rootless colourful water lily petal.

When he first started, he thought he would only need one hundred years for the one petal.

However, the laws were unprecedently complex.

Rather than one hundred years, he spent thirteen hundred years before fully comprehending the laws.

Fortunately, his efforts were not for naught.

After comprehending the laws, his cultivation soared from the early stage of the void refining realm to the peak of the early stage of the fusion realm.

However, because he didn’t have a spiritual root, he didn’t experience a change in his talent or an improvement in his qi quality.

After advancing, Zhen Yuan didn’t continue to comprehend rootless colourful water lily petals.

Instead, he roamed the space to check the situation before going to the space library.

One hundred space years passed in the blink of an eye.

On this day, Zhen Yuan felt some unusual fluctuations and raised his head from the book he was reading.

"Feng Xue." He muttered, tilting his head to the right.

Three days later, the fluctuations stopped and Zhen Yuan nodded before he continued to read.

One day after, he felt another wave of fluctuations.

However, this time, he stood and rushed to Shen Xu’s training room.

"Ayuan, I am about to advance." Shen Xu shouted.

"I will go out to arrange a lightning guiding formation and other precautions. I won’t be long." Zhen Yuan said.

"Okay."

After receiving the reply, Zhen Yuan left the space, found a flat ground and hastily arranged the necessary formations.

When he was done, he messaged Shen Xu and the double popped out from the space.

"Thank heavens. I almost couldn’t hold on." He said and sat cross-legged.

Almost immediately, the sky darkened and tribulation clouds began to gather.

"Don’t worry about anything. Just focus on crossing the tribulation." Zhen Yuan reminded.

"I know." Shen Xu said and took a deep breath.